Trunk



Patented Apr. Il, |899. P. H. SMITH.

TRUNK.

(Application led Nov. 8, 1898,)

(No Model.)

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PATENT OFFICE.

PAUL H. SMITH, OF COLUMBUS, OHIO.

TRUNK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N0. 622,870, dated April 1l, 1899. Application filed November 8 1898. Serial No. 695 J869. (No modela To a/ZZ whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, PAUL I-I. SMITH, a citizen of the United States, residing at Columbus, in the county of Franklin and State of Ohio,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Trunks; and l do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertaius to make and use the same.

The object of my present invention is to make improvements in the kind of trunk shown in my Patents No. 604,430, dated May 24, 1808, and No. 606,431, dated June 28,1898.

My present invention is directed more particularly to the provision of means for causing the elevated and outturned tray after it has been given a slight turn toward the front of the trunk `to automatically resume its proper position to descend into the trunk.

My invention also embraces other details of improvement, as hereinafter set forth and claimed.

Figure 1 is a longitudinal sectional view of a trunk containing my present improvements, some of the contained appliances being in section. Fig. 2 is a sectional view of a fraction of the trunk, taken on line .roc of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a sectional View looking at the left-hand end of what is shown in Fig..1, the partition in that end being partially broken away. Fig 4 is an enlarged sectional view of the upper end of the outer tube, looking in the direction opposite thattaken in Fig. 1. Fig. 5 is a plan view of the upper end of the outer tube, and Fig. 6 is a perspective view of the left.

In the embodiment of my invention shown 1 designates the body proper of the trunk, in the right-hand end wall of which is secured a tube 2, which, for brevitys sake, I call the outer tube. This outer tube has along opposite sides divergent wings or webs 2 with ears 2b, through which screws are passed to fasten the tube to the end wall of the trunk. The tube has at its inner side a longitudinal slot 2C and at its upper end a thickened cuplike portion 2d, having at its outer side a groove 2e and in its upper end a shoulder 2f, that at the side next the front of the trunk is inclined, as shown at 2ff. (See Fig. 4.)

3 designates the tray, a fraction only of which is shown, Fig. 1, which is supported on the upper end of a tubular spindle 4, having a projecting lug or feather 4. Y

The tubular tray-spindle 4 fits and is movable vertically in the outer tube and its cup, and the lug or feather 4 is adapted to move vertically in the groove 2'e and ride on the shoulder 2f, including the inclined portion 2, to support the tray in its elevated position.

In the lower end of the tube, I fit a plug, constituting what I call the lift. It is con1- posed of a cylindrical block or bar, the upper portion 5 of which is of smaller diameter than the lower, the part of smaller diameter fitting nicely in the tubular tray-spindle and the lower end of said spindle resting on the shoul- .der at the junction of the upper and lower portions of said lift. The lower portion of the lift has an ear or ears 5, that project into the slot 2 at the inner side of the tube 2, and into a hole at the bottom of the lift I place and solder one end of a cord, preferably of twisted wire. This cord is passed up over a pulley 7, journaled to the end wall of the trunk in the inclosed space behind the tube 2, and thence down around another pulley 8, journaled in like mannerin the lower part of said inclosed space, and thence through an opening (not shown, but well understood) in the bottom of the rear web or wing 2 to a horizontally-arranged pulley 9 in the rear right-hand corner of the truuk. The cord is thence carried across the bottomof the trunk to a similarly-arranged pulley 10 (see Fig. 3) in the rear left-hand'corner of the trunk, around which it is passed across the left-hand end of the trunk to a verticallyarranged pulley 11 in the front left-hand corner, over which it is passed to au adjustable eyebolt 12 on a lever 13, pivoted on the lefthand end wall of the trunk. The eyebolt l2 extends 'through a perforated projection 13rL on the lever 13 and has on its upper end a nut-12a, that may be turned to regulate the tension of the cord 6. The upper end of the lever is made with a socketed head 13a, open at its top and front, but closed at its back,

and the side Walls of the head are made with 'l-shaped slots 131?, into which project the ends of a pin 14 in the end of a handle-bar 14. By lifting the handle-bar to a vertical position and allowing the same to drop until the ends of the pin are down in the vertical IOO portionsof the slots the square end of the j handlebar lits against the square sides of the of the trunk, admitting free access to the in terior of the body of the trunk.

In its elevated and outturned position the' tray is supported by the resting of the feather upon the horizontal part of shoulder 2f, and when it is desired to return the tray to the trunk the tray is given a slightturn inward, when it falls by gravity into its proper posiltion for descent into the trunk, the feather sliding down upon the inclined portion 2ff of the shoulder.

The lower portion of the trunk-body is furnished with a false bottom 1b to cover the cord and pulleys, and the left-hand end of the trunk is furnished with a partition 1 to form a compartment for the level' and its appurtenances.

XVhat I claim, and desire to secure by Let-' l. In a trunk, the outer tube having an inclined shoulder 2ff and a tray-spindle fitting in said tube having a projection 4 to slide on said shoulder.

2. In a trunk, the outer tube having an in- @lined shoulder 2ff and a channel or groove 2e, and a tray-spindle fitting in said tube having a projection 4 adapted to slide on said shoulder and into said channel or groove.

3. In a trunk, an outer tray-spindle-holding tubel having divergent Walls or wings 2fL adapted to be secured to the end wall of the trunk.

4. In a trunk, the outer tube, slotted at its rear side, and a tubular tray-holding spindle in said outer tube, a lift consisting of a cylindrical block or bar, the upper portion of which is of smaller diameter than the lower, the smaller fitting in the lower end of said tubular spindle, and 'said spindle resting on l[he .shoulder at the junction of the upper and lower portions of said lift, said lower portion being provided with a projection extending into said slot, substantially7 as described.

5. In a trunk, a tray-elevating lever having a head socketed at its lower and rear sides only, a side of said socket having an "l -sliaped slot and a handle-bar having a pin entering said slot, substantially as described.

In testimonywhereof I aiiix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

PAUL Il. SMITH.

Vitnesses:

GEORGE WV. ALFRED, GEORGE M. FINCKEL. 

